Chapter 1483 Cleveland No Man's Land

The 2015-16 season NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 is about to start at the Quicken Loans Center in Cleveland. Yang Cheng hesitated and went with the team, not to mention the sourness in his heart.

It's like knowing the tragic ending of a TV series, but you have to watch it from the beginning to the end, and you are tortured with enjoyment.

In any case, this is the last game of the Nets this season. As the team owner, he should be on the scene to accompany the team through this tragic moment.

Conrad, who also knew the ending in advance, was not so patient. He didn't even show his face, and let Yang Cheng be the plenipotentiary representative.

As the largest industrial city and lake port in Ohio.

Cleveland is located on the south bank of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. It has risen with industry and shipping, but now it has become the poorest city in the United States.

Back then, why did James, the spiritual leader who was given high hopes by Cleveland, resolutely choose to leave the Cavaliers? In addition to the yearning for the championship and Miami Beach, Cleveland's own conditions are also a major reason.

It is not without reason that Cleveland has been rated as the poorest city in the United States for many years. The proportion of blacks in this city is large, accounting for almost 50%. Geographical and environmental factors determine that Cleveland basically cannot find a specialty of its own, because blacks There are too many, and it is not favored by large companies, so the unemployment rate and crime rate have remained high.

Although this is also an invisible form of racial discrimination, in the final analysis it was created by the people of Cleveland themselves, so the bitter fruit will naturally have to be swallowed by themselves.

Now this season is fine, the temperature is less than 20 degrees, the breeze blows the trees and shades, it looks like any other American city, at least on the surface.

But if you live in Cleveland in winter, you will feel the greatest malice in the world-cold, so cold that it makes your heart palpitate!

Due to the latitude farther north than Indiana, Cleveland can be described as freezing cold in winter.

As one of the northernmost cities in the United States, the temperature in winter is comparable to that of Detroit. However, the once glorious Motor City is now no different from a ghost town. Anyone with a little ability has already moved out of that building and can’t see it in broad daylight. A city full of people.

Not only is the temperature so high, but Cleveland's urban structure is also similar to that of Detroit—the city center is a famous "black gathering area", and no matter how cheap the rent is, it can't attract people to live in, and the houses are sold at double or triple digits.

If it happens to be snowing just in time, it will really be hell on earth. In the morning, cars with a layer of "ice shell" can be seen everywhere. If you don't have an ice shovel in your hand, your car will never be able to drive on the road!

All in all, Yang Cheng's biggest impression of Cleveland is still from the Cleveland consortium. Although none of them live in this ghost place, their reputation is still very loud.

The Cleveland Cavaliers' home Quicken Loans Center is located in the city center. Like all major cities in the United States, the city center is often a gathering area for blacks and homeless people.

Occasionally, a few black men in tattered clothes who looked like homeless people passed by on the street. When they saw someone, they stretched out their hands and shouted: "can you help me out?" (Can you help me?), which is almost their fixed line , Formed muscle memory, said to everyone when I saw it, didn't care after being rejected, and continued to move forward with my head down.

Yang Cheng sat in a temporarily rented Mercedes-Benz, looked at the black beggars on the side of the road, and compared them with the homeless in Los Angeles, and found that the homeless in Los Angeles looked much richer than the homeless in Cleveland.

I don’t know if this is a kind of wealth gap. At least the white homeless in Los Angeles are much more diligent. Yes, Yang Cheng refers to the behavior when they go to the streets to beg. The homeless in Los Angeles at least know how to use guitars and puppies as tools , while the black people in Cleveland didn't even bother to put on a hat, so they just reached out for it.

Passing by a convenience store, I took a quick look and found that almost all of them were black people, who bought things, collected money, and delivered goods. Note that this is not a supermarket specifically for black people, as the city of Cleveland is like this.

There is a big river in the center of Cleveland, which is different from other rivers that beautify the cityscape. The river in front of you is a canal, a big river that carries the function of transportation, and all kinds of cargo ships driving in it are quite spectacular.

Walk along the river and see a huge poster of James that reads "You and I are Witnesses". This is a slogan that Nike tailor-made for him, which means that if you don't watch James play, you will lose the opportunity to witness miracles.

However, Yang Cheng reckons that this ad should have been posted later. Cleveland fans who felt cheated after James finished "Decision 1" angrily burned everything related to James, including this ad.

But time has passed, and James came back again, which also comforted the wounded hearts of the Cleveland people, and Nike's billboards were re-hanging on the streets of Cleveland.

Seeing the billboard means that the Quicken Loans Center arena is about to appear in front of you.

The stadium was formerly called Gander Stadium, but after the little emperor came to Cleveland, Quicken Loans bought it and changed its name to Quicken Loans Center.

Because it was still early, looking left and right, Cleveland, which is not much more lively than Detroit, had nothing to visit, so we simply entered the stadium with the team to warm up.

Of course, Yang Cheng didn't leave the field, but sat on the sidelines, watching the players warm up hard like a supervisor, but also because of his arrival, today's training field is rare quiet, except for the friction between the soles and the floor. The creaking sound, and then the 'bang bang' sound of the basketball, can be numb after listening to it for a long time.

Yang Cheng stayed on the sidelines for a while, and saw Sean Marx leading a group of people walking through the player tunnel. Among them was a man with a beard. Yang Cheng recognized him at a glance. He was the owner of the Cavaliers and also Quicken Loans chairman Daniel Gilbert.

"Hey, Daniel, long time no see~"

"I should say this, Jason, this is my territory~" Gilbert smiled and shook hands with Yang Cheng. At first glance, these words sounded provocative and offensive.

But Yang Cheng didn't seem to hear it, she shrugged slightly and said, "You are still so energetic."

"Thank you, I'm still young~"

The two big bosses sat on the sidelines, and their subordinates, including Sean Marx, could only keep a little distance and chat together.

Daniel didn't shy away from looking at the warm-up situation of the Nets players, and said, "It seems that you are well prepared for tonight's game."

Yang Cheng glanced at him sideways, and said softly, "What's the use of that? Everything is predestined."

Daniel smiled and said nothing. If he got a cheap price and acted like a good boy, he would be hated by others. He took advantage of it, so why not let Yang Cheng enjoy his mouth?

After sitting on the sidelines for a while, I found that the Nets had started tactical training, so it was not suitable to continue watching, so as not to be misunderstood to spy on the enemy, and in front of the boss, it should not be too much.

So he took the initiative to get up and said, "Let's go, go to my office for a while, I received a bottle of good wine a while ago, let's taste it together?"

Yang Cheng stood up, "Of course, my honor."

Gilbert's office is much smaller than Yang Cheng's office in Barclays Center, but it is no less luxurious.

After a brief visit to the modern-style decoration, I casually said, "The office is great~"

Gilbert stood in front of the wine cabinet, turned his back to Yang Cheng and said, "After I bought the arena back then, I invested 30 million dollars in renovations. It's always the right money to spend."

He quickly chose the wine, and came over with two empty glasses. It seemed that he was going to open the wine himself. It aroused the wine worm in Yang Cheng's stomach.

Although Yang Cheng is not addicted to alcohol, it is difficult to control the desire to drink when faced with good wine.

If Yang Cheng couldn’t recognize the unique shape of the bottle and the unique color of the wine, he wouldn’t be ashamed to sit here and taste wine. “Plateau Knight, this should be the first 50-year-old wine? It was distilled in 1960 and bottled in 2010. , the alcohol content is close to 45 degrees, the capacity is 700ml, the distillery used 5 barrels of whiskey to bottle 275 bottles, remember that the price at that time seemed to be 10,000 pounds?"

If a bottle of wine wants to be sold as a luxury product, in addition to the brand value, product quality, time cost and other hard indicators must be high, it is difficult to support such a high unit price without additional value. A highly collectible Scotch single malt whiskey with high added value.

Gilbert was not surprised that Yang Cheng could tell the origin of this wine in one sentence. For people like them, learning about wine culture is just a basic operation.

"All right, but I bought this bottle at a high price from a collector. Now there are not many left in the world, and every bottle I drink is one bottle less."

Yang Cheng nodded, watched Gilbert open the wine quietly, and after waking up for a while, poured it into a crystal wine glass and handed it to Yang Cheng, "Try it~"

"Thank you~" After thanking the wine glass, Yang Cheng turned it gently, and the clear and bright wine flowed in the crystal glass. This is the thick feeling of old wine, just like the century-old canal flowing in the center of Cleveland.

Put it on the tip of the nose and inhale gently, the rich and changeable aroma and the spirit of alcohol that has not dissipated just after opening the bottle rushed straight to the top of the head, and I couldn't wait to take a sip, the spicy and rich taste, with excellent tannins And the flavor of brown sugar, the aftertaste is long, just like being in the African savannah, wild animals gallop past in groups, the shocking scene will never be forgotten for a long time, this is the wild charm from nature.

After swallowing it, he closed his eyes and sighed, "It's really good wine~"

Gilbert is also very satisfied with his consumption this time, "It seems that I will send someone to charge a few more bottles. How can one bottle of this kind of wine be enough?"

Yang Cheng played with the wine glass and joked, "It's better for us to reach an agreement, so as not to compete and make the seller cheaper."

Gilbert understood what Yang Cheng meant, "How many bottles are you going to collect?"

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